[NOTE: The source text appears to be heavily corrupted or damaged. The title "ВПЕН ЗЕ НСКОМ ГУ БКОМЕ" is illegible, and the document body contains significant OCR errors and fragmentary text. A reliable translation cannot be produced from this corrupted source material.]

What can be discerned:

**[TO THE PENZA GUBKOM]**

23574
Penza. Gubkom Turlo, copy to Minkin.
August 22, 1918, Moscow, 0 h. 35 m.

I do not understand how Minkin could refuse to carry out the resolutions of the Gubkom majority. I hope that this is only [text breaks off]

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